I'd like to share some obscure thoughts about my pokerstrategy/partypoker experience.
Just made 59 party points, 41 away from gaining access to the 'elusive' tournament s&g section of this website and forum.
Which is realy ironic considering I never played cash games in 4 years of poker. I always played tournaments.
So in order for me to gain the tournament knowledge I seek, I still need to learn and play more cash games.
But it's been fun, and playing tourny strategy in ring games can be real funny sometimes. I swear that the more people at the table playing +ev the better for me, as they misinterpret all of my betting patterns because I am so used to using psychological plays in tourneys.
In fact every player that walks into a cash table with $2 is almost a sitting duck for those ready to pick off the SSS player.
I already go in with $4 just to throw them off, but slow playing for instance can realy see the $1 bets fly, more than making up for the odd suck out.
The most startling fact is that I cannot get away with raising more than 2xBB pre flop! Every time I do, I am called, (often by rubbish), just to have the pot taken from me when it falls low etc. It's suicide for me. But the slow play fills the gaps :).
I'm doing ok
I'm $12 down on my original $50 start and have 59 partypoints - not bad going for a cash game amateur is it?